Sam Dean Thriller - Point of Darkness (Sam Dean Thriller, Book 3)
‘This is Mike Phillips’s best novel, brutal and caring, totally authentic’ The Times
Sent from London to New York to bring a dying friend’s message to his daughter, Mary, Sam Dean arrives in Queens, steeped in a mesh of Caribbean and Hispanic culture, looking forward to reconnecting with family and old friends.
But his relaxing holiday turns dark when Mary disappears, and Sammy is caught up in a world of murder, sex, and corrupt politics that threatens to turn his world upside down.
Melded with social commentary around race, class and gentrification, Point of Darkness is a gripping thriller, still eerily relevant.
Praise for Mike Phillips‘This is Mike Phillips’s best novel, brutal and caring, totally authentic’The Times -
‘Phillips delivers his seamy tale with an enviably warm spareness of effect’Sunday Times -
‘An incisive study of immigrant experience wrapped up in a gripping thriller’Times Literary Supplement -
‘The Best British thriller in years… A novel that seems to have been written for a purpose; it deals with the black British community as something other than a problem or a political cliché’Marie Claire -
‘Could have come from the pen of the master, Raymond Chandler’Today -
A thriller which maintains pace and provides excitements rooted in reality … a winner’Guardian -
‘There’s much here to suggest that Phillips could be one of our bravest, most incisive social commentators’Mail on Sunday -
”Phillips” - depictions of urban London share more with Harlem and Los Angeles than the English drawing rooms of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell’Financial Times
‘Phillips… gives a mean streetwise documentary edge to his hero’s hunt for a witness’Sunday Express -
‘Mr Phillips writes in a precise uncluttered style that suits the detective novel’s ritualistic form. But it is the sensibility of his hero - a black man - that lends freshness to the form itself’The New York Times Book Review -
‘As a political thriller it has something to say about multi-cultural Britain that is both revealing and intelligent … a good novel, deftly handled and deserving of praise’Time Out -